OK just got home and scrolled through my .mp4 of it. She totally says "My Old Fella". That's pretty much what I thought she said the first time around but after reading posts here it made me question it for a moment.

As for shooting the Silent, moving frame by frame (god I'm a nerd) I don't see any indication that Rory is aware of the Silent BUT there is a bright flash of light about a split second before River draws her gun and shoots it. Perhaps THAT is what she was reacting to. Still though, neither of them is looking directly at the Silent at that moment, so again, blooper or clue?

Safe? No of course you're not safe! There's about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world, but if you want to pretend you're safe just so you can sleep at night, ok, you're safe....But you're not really.

OK just got home and scrolled through my .mp4 of it. She totally says "My Old Fella". That's pretty much what I thought she said the first time around but after reading posts here it made me question it for a moment.

As for shooting the Silent, moving frame by frame (god I'm a nerd) I don't see any indication that Rory is aware of the Silent BUT there is a bright flash of light about a split second before River draws her gun and shoots it. Perhaps THAT is what she was reacting to. Still though, neither of them is looking directly at the Silent at that moment, so again, blooper or clue?

Safe? No of course you're not safe! There's about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world, but if you want to pretend you're safe just so you can sleep at night, ok, you're safe....But you're not really.

Its a bit awkward, but I'll stand corrected. Do I seriously have to balance this fishbowl on my head though?

The moment after River says "My 'ol fella didn't see that did he? He gets ever so cross" she turns to face Rory and then Rory says to her "So, what kind of a doctor are you? she then says "archaeology" then without turing around immediately swings her arm around and shoots the silent creeping up on her from behind.

However on repeated viewings, I think that "flash" was simply sparks or equipment exploding, I thought it was one of The Silents energy buildups.

The Suits the Silence wears is another physical indication of their parasitic nature of how they can literally make nothing for themselves. They can't even come up with their own sense of fashion, they have to steal off other races.

If anyone has every seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Episode Hush She fought theDemons THe Gentlemen. They remind me of the Silents. If you google it they have a photoVery Similar to the Silence except the Head and hands

Rust could um do your magic and post a pic of the Gentlemen from buffy and a Silent???

so, can anyone explain to me, why the silents, who can completely obliterate people, would be wiped out by puny humans? none of them are going to fight back, and blast a few people along the way? am i the only one who thinks that's a big plot hole in an alien invasion/fight story?

I agree. This is a HUGE plot hole. It has bothered me as soon as the episode ended. The Doctor also assumes that every human that sees a Silence has a gun. This would clearly not be the case. So the Silence could simply power up, kill the humans that don't have a gun, and pretty much decimate most of the population.

so, can anyone explain to me, why the silents, who can completely obliterate people, would be wiped out by puny humans? none of them are going to fight back, and blast a few people along the way? am i the only one who thinks that's a big plot hole in an alien invasion/fight story?

I agree. This is a HUGE plot hole. It has bothered me as soon as the episode ended. The Doctor also assumes that every human that sees a Silence has a gun. This would clearly not be the case. So the Silence could simply power up, kill the humans that don't have a gun, and pretty much decimate most of the population.

As I explained before, it's covered in the episode that the Silence have to power up to discharge their energy blast, and combine that with the announcement catching them off guard (and standing close to Humans) that the Silence will be killed more then they can kill.

Thank you for saving me time looking for it. And how did you post your video like that. God im in the Dark ages over here lol.

Happy to do it. It was fun.

I'm on a PowerMacG5 running OS 10.5.8. With the video playing in a QuickTime window, I'd simply pause at the scene I want to grab and do a screen capture (command+shift+4) and grab the frame, then I'd just upload it to my server to link to in my post.

Heck, I'll have to see how long it would take to upload an .mp4 or .avi of the whole episode, for those of us Yanks who don't yet have BBC America.

Right now I have to download each episode via bit-torrent, then convert the .avi file to .mp4 so I can play it on my AppleTV. Usually surprisingly good quality encodes too. I'm guessing they're coming right out of someone's DVR.

The only creative thing i have tried is using Garageband on the imac to edit the Tardis sound effects into the Soundtracks. My next thing is mixing it on the Ipad-2 using Garageband. When they do not provide instructions figure it will take me until 2099 lol.

night folks I checked under my bed, in the closet, and the cat box incase a Silence was hiding.

But you wouldn't remember it even if you saw it.

Coincidentally, what does that mean for the Silents that are killed due to hypnotic suggestion? How are they going to handle clean up? Or is there now a spot right outside the Oval Office that stinks to high heaven for reasons no one can fathom?

I had a big "duh" moment just now! If the Silence make everyone forget them by telepathy, when they get killed you would still remember the bodies because they can no longer make you forget!!!

I should say, in all fairness after my previous post, that the basic plot/story with 1969, the Apollo mission, and the Silence was cool. It's just all the familiar elements were obvious to me and the set-up of all the "questions-to-be-answered/explained-later" were a distraction. The Silence are a super-creepy-looking alien. The resolution of their threat with the subliminal message sent by the Doctor was brilliant trickery on his part.

I also liked Delaware. Interesting that Mark Sheppard is a British actor who on American TV programs plays with his natural English accent, but on Who, a British program, he's plays an American! Ironic, isn't it?